touting their connections to giuliani and the trump administration. so who exactly are these men? cnn s senior investigative correspondent drew griffin takes a look. reporter: all you need to know about rudy giuliani s now indicted clients is that a long list of people who did business with them from a home rental, a property lease, money loans, even basketball tickets, have sued them. there s a saying in russian, don t go in the forest if you re afraid of wolves. these guys, they just weren t wolves. they were radioactive wolves. there were warning signals, unfortunately, that i don t think mayor giuliani picked up. reporter: according to prosecutors, the men were illegally dropping hundreds of thousands of dollars in foreign contributions to republican campaigns. they were also dropping something else, rudy giuliani s name. the two men used their political connections, photos of themselves with giuliani, even
from a home rental, a property lease, money loans, even basketball tickets have sued them. there s a saying in russia. don t go in the forest if you re afraid of wolves. and these guys, they just weren t wolves. i mean they were radioactive wolves. there were warning signals unfortunately that i don t think that mayor giuliani picked up. reporter: according to prosecutors, parnas and fruman were illegally dropping hundreds of thousands of dollars in foreign contributions to republican campaigns. they were also dropping something else rudy giuliani s name. the two men used their political connections, photos of themselves with giuliani, even attending george bush s funeral with the former mayor. there they are hugging florida governor ron desantis and of course reams of photos with donald trump and his family, all to use as currency in their scheme. in parts of the world like russia and ukraine, if you have photos like that and you show those to people, these are
about rudy giuliani s now indicted clients is that a long list of people who did business with lev parnas or igor fruman from a home rental, a property lease, money loans, even basketball tickets, have sued them. there s a sayings in russian, don t go in the forest if you re afraid of wolves. these guys, they just weren t wolves. i mean, they were radioactive wolves. there were warning signals that unfortunately mayor giuliani didn t pick up. reporter: according to prosecutors, parnas and fruman were illegally dropping hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions to republican campaigns. they were also dropping something else. rudy giuliani rudy giulianame. the two men used political connections, photos of themselves with giuliani, hugging florida governor desantis, attending president push s funeral with giuliani. in parts of the world like